Recent Carbon Brief articles by Orla Dwyer

Orla Dwyer covers food, land and nature. Orla has a BA in journalism from Dublin City University. She previously reported and wrote a climate newsletter for Irish news website The Journal. She has also worked at Virgin Media Television, Dublin People and the Irish Farmers Journal.

• Q&A: The state of the UK’s ‘food security’ in a fast-warming world
• Agriculture ‘major driver’ of rise in nitrous oxide emissions over past 40 years
• Better refrigeration could avoid almost 2bn tonnes of CO2 per year from food loss
• Q&A: The evolving debate about using genetically modified crops in a warming world
• EU spending up to €48bn on nature-harming activities each year, report says
• DeBriefed 3 May 2024: G7 sets end date for coal; Deadly floods around globe; Brazil’s pitch to tax ultra-rich
• Q&A: The impact of farmer protests on the EU’s upcoming parliamentary elections
• ‘Unprecedented’ stress in up to half of the Amazon may lead to tipping point by 2050
• DeBriefed 9 February 2024: EU told to cut emissions 90% by 2040; Labour’s £28bn in context; Can Northern Ireland ‘catch up’ on climate?
• Analysis: How do the EU farmer protests relate to climate change? 
• Lough Neagh: How climate change intensified toxic algae on the UK’s largest lake
• In-depth Q&A: What food waste means for climate change
• DeBriefed 1 September 2023: ‘Destructive’ Hurricane Idalia; UK cabinet shake-up; Ireland’s temperate rainforests
• Global warming could push tropical forest leaves past a ‘critical temperature’
• Revealed: Thousands of chickens in transit died from heat stress on day UK hit 40C
• In-depth Q&A: How trees benefit nature, people and the climate 
• Air-pollution monitors may hold ‘unnoticed’ wealth of biodiversity data
• Climate change had no ‘significant’ impact on northern Italy floods in May 2023
• Q&A: How can countries stop subsidies harming biodiversity?
• Helping ‘climate-compatible trees’ spread their seeds may benefit Europe’s forests
• ‘Alarming’ expansion of cropland in protected areas threatens biodiversity goals
• Food waste makes up ‘half’ of global food system emissions
• Fertiliser emissions could be cut to ‘one-fifth of current levels’ by 2050
• Logged tropical forests are a ‘substantial’ carbon source for at least 10 years